Lighting

Kyocera has announced that the company developed the world’s first full-spectrum LED lighting for aquariums. Kyocera’s high-colour-rendering LED lighting combines its proprietary violet LEDs and RGB (red, green and blue) phosphors to create lights close to natural sunlight at specific underwater depths. Kyocera’s new LED lighting is ideal for growing various water creatures as it reproduces the light close to the natural habitats of corals and water plants.

  Lights, mainly used for making a room brighter when it is dark. That’s what I had always thought anyways, until I visited the Lutron light experience in London. Lutron a company who works in the lighting control industry, made it clear almost immediately it’s not just about light it’s more about the whole experience.

Developer of LED technologies and horticultural grow lighting, Plessey, has announced that B4Hydrogrow, a new venture from Dutch lettuce grower B-Four Agro, will install Plessey’s new Hyperion 1750 micromole/s LED top-lights in its first greenhouse measuring 29,000m².

CAST Software has announced the release 41 of wysiwyg lighting design and previsualisation software. The new version brings a broad range of new features and functionality that they hope will reinforce wysiwyg’s position as the tool of choice for lighting professionals. 

The smart hotel of the future got a step closer today with the launch of Interact Hospitality from Signify. The hotel room management system enables guests to alter lighting, temperature and make room service requests at the touch of a button. This smart system also lets hotel staff know if a room is occupied and helps them to respond quicker to guest requests, providing useful information to improve the guest experience, optimise operations and save energy.

The iconic heavy metal band Iron Maiden is packing arenas and wowing head banging crowds with its Legacy of the Beast European tour. Helping to bring its richly designed stage show to life is entertainment lighting from Signify. 

As the lighting controls market continues to boom, CP Electronics has launched its new CPD for specifiers, outlining what to be aware of when choosing lighting controls. With technology coming on leaps and bounds since the early noughties, it’s probably no surprise that the global lighting controls market is growing at a rapid pace, being swept along with the technology current.

People on the Canary Islands will get an even better view of the stars thanks to new astronomy-friendly street lighting from Signify. In Puerto de la Cruz, a city on the north coast of Tenerife, the company is installing smart LED street lights that can be dimmed remotely and which use special optics to reduce light spillage that could interfere with nearby observatories.

Genomics advances are changing the world. By mapping the DNA of living organisms human and animal health can be improved, diseases eradicated and crop plants strengthened to increase their yield. It is a relatively young science, largely based on Francis Crick and James Watson’s discovery of the DNA double helix in 1953 and still has a great deal of potential for further advancement. 

  Navigant Research, and industry analyst firm has issued a report entitled: ‘Navigant Research Leaderboard: Smart Street Lighting,’ in which Signify is ranked as the leader for Smart Street Lighting globally.